Disciplinary Literacy and Student-Centered Assessment: A Perfect Combination

Assessment Learning Network with Elizabeth Birr Moje

Date

Monday, September 30, 2024

Time

9:30 am - 2:30 pm

Location

Kellogg Conference Center
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Hotel Info

219 S. Harrison Rd. East Lansing, MI 48824
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ALN Schedule 2024-25

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The Assessment Learning Network (ALN) kicks off the 2024-25 season with an in-person engagement that includes learning and networking.

Elizabeth Birr Moje, well known for her work in disciplinary literacy, sets the stage for this series by explaining when students learn the literacy particular to each discipline, they gain access to advanced learning opportunities. In this way disciplinary literacy can be understood as an issue of social justice. Dean Moje’s call to action will animate the Assessment Learning Network and its members throughout the coming year.

The MAC’s Components of an Equitable Assessment System and the applied research embedded in GELN’s Essential Practices for Disciplinary Literacy in the Secondary Classroom will be introduced in Session 1 and then referenced throughout the series.  MAC consultants and disciplinary literacy leaders from the General Education Leadership Network (GELN) will join Dr. Moje in this session for supplementary presentations and dialogue.

Framing questions

  1. What specialized vocabulary, communication practices, and tools shape the discipline of assessment?
  2. What research supports the importance of developing disciplinary literacies for teachers and their students?
  3. What are examples of disciplinary literacy instruction and components of an equitable assessment system as they work together in a secondary classroom setting?
  4. Why should disciplinary literacy be understood as an issue of social justice?

This session is co-sponsored and presented by the Disciplinary Literacy Task Force of the GELN and the Michigan Assessment Consortium

Event Resources

Presenter: Elizabeth Birr Moje

Elizabeth Birr Moje is dean, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Education, and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Literacy, Language, and Culture in the Marsal Family School of Education. Moje teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in secondary and adolescent literacy, cultural theory, and research methods and was awarded the Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize with colleague, Bob Bain, in 2010. A former high school history and biology teacher, Moje’s research examines young people’s culture, identity, and literacy learning in and out of school in Detroit, Michigan. Moje has published 5 books and numerous journal articles Moje is a member of the William T. Grant Foundation Board of Trustees, an elected member of the National Academy of Education, and an elected member of the Reading Hall of Fame. In 2022, She is recipient of the Oscar Causey Award for Distinguished Contributions in Literacy Research from the Literacy Research Association (2022); the Senior Career Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Council of Research on Language and Literacy (2023), and the John J. Gumperz Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Scholarship from the American Educational Research Association (2024). She also was recognized among Crain’s Detroit Business’ Notable Leaders in Higher Education in 2023.

Learning Moments

LM-Moje: What is disciplinary literacy?
LM-Moje: Research support for disciplinary literacy
LM-Moje: Disciplinary literacy as a social justice issue
LM-Moje: Enriching and expanding the dialogue around state assessment

Learning Points

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